Chandos House

Chandos House is a Grade I listed building at N° 2 Queen Anne Street, Marylebone, in central London.

The façade is of Craigleith stone, perhaps as an advertisement for the quarry to the west of Edinburgh on which the Adam brothers' firm had recently taken a lease.

In May 1815, the unexpired portion of the lease (51 years) was sold by her executors and purchased by the Austrian embassy.

The first resident ambassador was Prince Esterházy, and for the next 25 years, Chandos House was the scene of entertainment on the most lavish scale.

Newspaper magnate Gomer Berry (later Viscount Kemsley), became the last private owner of Chandos House, buying it from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury in 1927.